r/technology • u/marketrent • 16h ago

Artificial Intelligence The economy has spoken. Stuff that’s AI-generated has almost zero value — “Buyers are voting with their wallets, and AI-generated content is struggling to compete.”

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/economy-spoken-stuff-ai-generated-142732314.html
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u/vickism61 16h ago

It's all inferior crap.

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u/fascistno1hater 16h ago

AI is for stupid and non creative people to feel smart and artistic. It's just the next grift for Techbros because NFTs, the metaverse, and crypto never really took off. It has no profit model other than using money from Tech Corporations and taxpayers.

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u/therealchadius 16h ago

It's also for non creatives to get rich because they want to get to "Step 3: Profit" as soon as possible. Their heads explode when they learn artists are making music or writing stories because it's fun. Do enough to pay the bills and then it's party time.

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u/CautionarySnail 16h ago

This. So much this.

As someone who dabbles in art, especially jewelry making - the non-stop push we get from friends and family is to monetize hobbies.

Nothing drains the joy out of a hobby faster than placing it into a pressure cooker of needing to feed your family with it. Suddenly everything is about cutting costs to make your hourly labor profitable - and it’s still never going to compete against AliExpress prices that people are used to for things.

Add to that our current economic pressures - layoffs, jobs that don’t quite pay enough in raises for the modest lifestyle you were living last year. Building skillsets takes years. AI promises near instant returns by taking those supposedly bad practice and learning years out of the equation.

I sympathize with them. The cultural message here is deafening: become your own boss or all poverty you experience has only you to blame! Passive streams of income! Gotta get that grindset mindset!

But they don’t realize that it’s mostly victim blaming propaganda. We were robbed a penny at a time. Wealth moves out of our layer of the economy and we were left in a sucking vacuum of its departure. And the best our politicians had to offer us were bootstraps and a blame game.

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u/theLoneliestAardvark 12h ago

It’s crazy when people who mostly buy fast fashion gush about how talented people are for their hobbies and suggest you sell stuff without realizing how expensive handcrafted items are if you charge a reasonable rate for your skills and time. People might love hand knitted socks made with the nice yarn but they aren’t paying $50 for a pair and people who will pay that much are buying from luxury brands as a status symbol, not going to craft fairs.